mop up
spilled Port with blotting-paper. Only GRAND CROSS in Peers' Gallery,
sat stern and unresponsive.

"I call that pretty mean, TOBY," he said, talking it over afterwards.
"It was I who first saw the smile in House of Commons. My greatest
oratorical success; and here comes JOKIM, coolly appropriates it,
and House laughs as if it were quite new!" Never saw GRAND CROSS so
terribly angry. JOKIM will have bad quarter of an hour when they meet.
_Business done._--Budget brought in.

_Friday._--Bi-metallism the matter to-night. SAM SMITH brings on
attractive subject in one of those terse, polished, pregnant orations
for which he is famous. Nevertheless, the few Members present
yawn. OLD MORALITY--"nothing if not man of business"--finds topic
irresistible. Whilst subject _caviare_ to the General (GOLDSWORTHY and
others), seems matter of life and death to a select half-dozen; these
glare at each other across House, as if arguments advanced _pro_ and
_con_. affected their private character. Prince ARTHUR plunges
in; declares in favour of Bi-metallism; Irish Members share common
ignorance on subject; but this settles them; go out in body to vote
for Mono-metallism; SAM SMITH'S Motion for Conference negatived by 183
votes against 87.

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Transcriber's Note:

This book contains some dialect.

Page 196: Both 'winged' and 'winged' were used in this book, and both
have been retained:

"What does that winged portent in mid-air,"

"Must watch his winged rival. Who may tell"

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